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MF Roussel, CW Rettenmier and CJ Sherr
Department of Tumor Cell Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital,
Memphis, TN 38105.
The SV40-immortalized mouse macrophage cell line, BAC1.2F5, is strictly
dependent on CSF-1 for its survival and proliferation in culture.
Introduction of a retroviral vector containing a 1.6 kilobase (kb) pair
human CSF-1 cDNA into these cells abrogated their growth factor dependence
but did not render the cells tumorigenic in nude mice. The infected
macrophages contained multiple copies of the vector provirus, expressed
both membrane-bound and secreted forms of CSF-1, and exhibited constitutive
down modulation of the murine CSF-1 receptor. Because insertion of the
v-fms gene has previously been shown to abrogate factor dependence and
induce tumorigenicity in BAC1.2F5 macrophages, the failure of these cells
to express a fully transformed phenotype after persistent stimulation by
endogenous CSF-1 suggests that the v-fms and c-fms gene products provide
different signals for cell proliferation.
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